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Core tor Squeaking Shoes. The statement that to bore a hole ii i_ il. i _ _ r ? KSBHian way mrougn lae soie ui n fuuc SyWrelieves its squeaking is wortii noting. ^^PThe reason assigned for the cure is Mr that the air between the layers of |H leather is released by the boring. As the squeaking quality is oftenest a V part of children'? shoes, the test of Y the suggestion's efficacy might be made there. Men are judged not by their intentions, but by the results of their ac^ tions. ^ Bidden Places. Why a weasel should hate a rat is strange, I as he is only an elongated rat himself. Kats ! and n:ice love hidden places, and a weasel is about the only living thing tnat can find them out. Aches and pains are like rats and mice. Thevsw?k out thu hidden Dlaces of the human system and gnaw and ravage the muscles and nerves. St. Jacobs Oil, like a weasel, knows how to go for them. It will penetrate to the secret recesses of the pain, and breaks up its habitation and drives it out. Rats ana mice shun the corners where a weasel has been, and pains and aches once fairly driven out by St. Jacobs Oil are permanently cured and seldom come back to their old haunts. There must be patience with the treatment; some chronic forms are stubborn and resist, but the great remedy will Anally conquer and give health and strength to the afflicted parts. Japan imported about thirty million salions of kerosene oil from America lost year. No-To-Bac for Fifty Cents. Over 400.000 cured. Why not let No-To-Bac regulate or remove your desire for tobacco? Saves mouey, makes health and manhood. Cure guaranteed. 50 cents and $1-00. at all druggists. The delinquent taxes ia U&ieago amount ' to over ?3,010,000. Life and Health .. _J Happiness and usefulness depend upon pure blood. Hood's Sarsaparilla m ikes pure b!ooil. This is the tima to take Hood's Sarsaparilla, because the blood is now loaded with impurities wh!ch must be promptly expelled or health will be in danger. Remember, Hood's spX. Is the best?in fact the One True Blood Purifier. Sold by all drugsrists. $1, six for S3. Dill* net barmoniouslv with nOOfl S IliS Hood's Sarfaparilla. TWI 1> TT1T71 f direct Hpeclal attenH fij |ij I tioii to the following re nmrknble statements: _jmi i Dear Madame: Yours to hand. I recom/' mend the Moore treatment ^ W because I have tried it, and JQFtP* m know it to be just what he 11 j ..K ?aysitis. I wns cured by HKV*? W and have remained so r eight years: have known of Ik. many others being curcd jBrWr 'MR of tne very worst cases. fgjntf' .JSBjL. Ry all means get it. 4/kyf' .39J&P Yours truly, W. E. Pens*. he/ 'imKff'J Eureka Springs, Akk. The above is a tetter TBftfj 'IhXfilt written by the late Rev. W. .TZi<" E. Penn. the noted EvangeMet. to Mrs. W.H.Watson. New Albion, N. Y. Restored His Hearine in 5 Minutes. My age Is 63. I guffered from Catarrh 10 years. Had intense head- ff ache, continual roaring fef Vj and singing in ears, took w ^ w cold easily. My hearing jca began to fail, and for wf ^7 T IS three years was almost P entirely deaf, and con- . ft tinually pvew worse. Jh failed. In despair I commenced to use Aerial Medication in 188S, and WtjiMW la the effect of the first application was simply wonderful. In less than five minutes my hearing was fully reItored, and has been perfect ever sine?, and in a few months was entirely cured of Catarrh. Eli Brown. Jacksboro, Tenn. < ''Whereas I was deaf, now I hear." ' At the age of 69, after havf inff suffered from Catarrhal Y Deafness twenty years, am truly thankful to state that 1 .? I am entirely cured by Aerial ,1\ . ~'M Medication: my hearing, ' which had become so bad that 1 could not hear a watch tick, Tfc-yJS&iHg' or conversation, is fully restored. I will verify this statement. V\'M. BitchIE, Derby Center, Vt. , Medicine for 3 Months' Treatment Free To introduce this treatment and prove berond doubt that Aerial Medication will cure Poforrk Thrni?^>l l.nnirBicuocpC ucaiuvaa, vbuhim, a ui vav c*uv? uuup *.? I will, for a short time, send Medicines for , three months' treatment free. Address, I. H. Moore, M. D., Dept. K. 7, Cincinnati, 0, f Wo ,L^P^k| opened that ^ i bottle of >^flr HIRES M Root beer? r?f|& The popping of a ^ W 1 cork from a bottle of 1^** i Hires is a signal of V*>" Jf* < good health and piessure. A sound th* old folks like to hear i ?the children can't ri uidccUT I niiibo w R Is composed of the ??. TfV7S Is very ingredients the rw system requires. AidiDg * w the digestion, soothing the nerves, purifying the blood. A temper- BWM?8k R ance drink for temper- P'WM ance people. "> m Made onlr by * ^ CD jy The Charles E. Hlfei Co.. PhUi. ^ , ft 0 ^ ^ H Pistols an tThe duelling pistol i place, in the museum o of barbarism. The pist< it the pestle that turnei to be shot like bullets /0\ liver. But the pestle i X7111 be, probably, until the virtue of Ayer's su treat the liver as a fri |p| Instead of driving it, t compounded on the the its work thoroughly obstructing conditions, w are removed, the liver #When your liver wan that will," J Ayer's Cat! How One Falls Asleep. When one falls asleep, the order of surrender to the spell is: sight, taste, tmoll Vioorincr. +oTif*h. The sense of touch is the lightest sleeper and most easily wakened, then hearing, then sight, while sluggard taste and smell awaken last. To test diamonds easily, place wax on the back of the gems. This will not affect the brilliancy of good stones, but will make paste imitations look worthless directly. Electricity in Medicine. The enormous strides made by the new force in commerce and industries of late years have been to a certain extent, paralleled by the application of electricity in medicine and surgery. The electric motor turns the drill of the dentist, bores out all the noses of mankind in the hands of the rhinologist, and may run the saw and the trephine of the surgeon. The electric light is made to illuminate all the cavities and interiors of the human body, so that "the pestilence that walketh in darkness" in the black recesses of our viscera is sought out and driven away by the electric searchlight. It is nothing now to put an endoscope into the stomach and scrutinize its walls from one end to the other, and in a dark room the very size of the stomach is determined by the transamination of the abdominal walls when the light is turned on inside of that viscus. Electricity furnishes heat for the cautery, with which morbid surfaces may be healed, wounds stimulated and tumors extirpated. The electrolytic needle removes the hair of the bearded woman, eradicates birth-marks, decomposes tumors, coagulates aneurisms, and, in its most romantic role, manufactures those most desired ornaments of the feminine physiognomy?lovely dimples. The electro-magnet pulls out the beam from our neighbor's eye when the beam is in the shape of a piece of iron anrl wVipn tVift rmeration is in telligently directed by the ophthalmologist. It may hunt up and draw out wandering needles. Electricity has considerable value as a means of diagnosis in many neurological conditions. Then, too. in the surgery of the brain and spinal cord, which has newly sprung into existence, electric stimulation of parts of the brain and of nerve roots is very valuable iU localizing the exact region to be operated upon. Altogether, electricity occupies aD extensive place in the armamentarium of a physician, and it is considered ol paramount importance by the medical students of the day.?Home Quees. River YFanders From Its Patli. Some boys while hunting muskratt near Willow Point, N. Y., made a curious discovery, recently. They heard a roaring sound and followed the noise to the foot of a large tree, where they found a portion of the current of the Susquehanna Eiver had been diverted and was pouring into Bome underground channel with the noise of a cataract. There wp.3 apparently a drop of considerable distance and the water entering the opening had the appearance of a whirlpool, everything in the vicinity being drawn in. The phenomenon cannot be accounted for, as the formation is of re cent occurrence.?New York PreBs. "Praying John" of Kansas. John Horrigan, known as "Praying John," of Ellis, Kan., has made it a practice for many years to go out on the prairie at sunrise and sunset, no matter what the weather or season or his condition of health, and there to offer up prayer. His knees have worn away the turf and hardened the soil at the place of his devotions. Shake Into Your Shoes Allen's Foot-Ease, a powder for the feet. It :ures painful, swollen, smarting feet, and instantly takes the 8tin^' out of corns and bunions. It's the greatest comfort discovery of :ht> age. Allen's Foot-East makes tight-fitAt. now* cKauc -foal o<icv It- ia a oortfifn :ure for sweating, callous and hot, tirt d, aching feet. Try it to-day. Sold hy all druggists ind shoe stores. By mail for 2ac. in stamps. Trial package FREE. Address, Allen S. Oimited, Le Hoy N. Y. Pi=o's Cure for Consumption has no equal is a Couirh medicine.?f. ai. Abbott, 383 Sen:ca St., Buffalo, X. Y., May 9,1MK. A fair lady becomes still fairer hy using that alutary oeautifier, Glenn's Sulphur Soap. Hill's Huir & Whisker Dye, black or brown, 50c yir?. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children eething, softens the uums, reduces inflammaion, allays pain, cures wind colic, 25c. a bottle Wn!N bilious or costive, eat a Cascaret. andy cathartic; cure guaranteed; 10c. , 25c. Try Grain-O! Try Grain-U Ask your grocer to-day to show you a "3*.ck ige of Grain-O, the new food drink that takas he place of coffee. The children may drink t without injury as well as the adult. All vho try it like it. Gr.iin-0 has that rich seal )rown of Mosba or Java, but it is made from mre grains, and the must delicate stomach revives it without distress. Oae-quarter the jrice ot coffee. 15 cts. and 25 cts. per package, sold by all grocers. Cure For Sleeplessness, To cure sleeplessness, a noted doctor says, let the feet be put in water as bot as possible betore retiring. Hot water is also advised by physicians to be taken internally. It quiets excited nerves and is good lor indigestion, these two being causes of much insomnia. id Pestles, iow occupies its proper f the collector of relics ol ought to have beside 11|| i out piUs like bullets, 5 at the target of the 3 still in evidence, arid . everybody has tested \|p gar coated pills. They /||^ end, not as an enemy. hey coax it. They are iory that the liver does and faithfully under (||p and if the obstructions /is* will do its daily duty. (?|p ts help, ,cet "the pill 0\ lartic PillSc ? o- m z-xyj o v> REV. DR. TALMAGR S hi! tb simr?av?? discourse by toe tb ~~ - - ftn NOTED DIVINE. m< ba 00 Subject: "The Triumph of Sadness." Tt Text : "Then went I up In the night by mi the brook and viewed the wall, and turned back, and entered by the gate of the valley, J*' and so returned."?Nehemiah ii., 15. Tl A dead city Is more BUggestlve than a llv- bu lng city?past Rome than present Rome? an ruins rather than Bewly frescoed cathedral. m< But the best time to visit a ruin is by moonlight. The Coliseum is far more tascinating in to the traveler after sundown than before, pi. You may stand by daylight amid the monas- W? tio ruins of Melrose abbey, and 6tudy 0v shafted oriel and rosetted stone and mul- 9j3 lion, but they throw theirstrongest witchery 9k by moonlight. 8ome of you remember what an the enchanter of Scotland said in the '"Lay tr? of the Last Minstrel:" fri IITITa.. 1 stnt (Wah nlanr XfolvAoa Or?V>i0 t 1* UII1U91 lUUU TAW n ?uu UIU44VJW UU5UH Go visit it by the pale moonlight." Ye Washington Irving describes the Anialu- JT* 6iun moonlight upon the Alhambra ruins as amounting to an enchantment. My text ? * presents you Jerusalem in ruins. The tower M*5 down. The gates down. The walls down. JP] Everything down. Nehemiah on horseback, by moonlight looking upon the ruins. While P? he rides there are some friends on foot go- j8 ing with him, for they do "not want the v51 many horses to disturb the suspicions of the ?? people. These people do not know the ?u secret of Nehemiah's heart, but they are going as a sort of bodyguard. A1 I hear the clicking hoofs of the horso on ex which Nehemiah rides, as he guides it this pej way and that, into this gate and out of that, . winding through that gate amid the debris S1 of once great Jerusalem. Now the horse comes to dead hult at tho tumbled masonry 2.Q where he canuot pass. Now he Bhies off at 5* /tltnwwail timhuM Wato htt ol An rf me \^uantu iwh vvujxs.? i?ivu^ where the water undei the moonlight flashes P frc-m the mouth of the brazen dragon after ?Q which the gate was named. Heavy hearted Nehemiah, riding Jn and ont, now oy his old home desolated, now by the defaced temple, now amid the scars of the city that had gone down under battering ram and conflagration! The escorting party knows not what Nehe- l?' miah means. Is ho getting crazy? Have ,/l his own personal sorrows, added to the sor- 1 rows of the nation, unbalanced his intellect? Fej Still the midnight exploration goes on. Nehemiah on horseback rides through the ne( lish gate, by the tower of the furnaces, by res the king's pool, by the dragon well, iu anil out, until the midnight ride is completed, and Nehemiah dismounts from his horse,* Rf' and to the amazed and confounded and in- . credulous bodyeuard, declares the dead J*1 secret of his heart when he says, 0 "Come, now, let us build Jcrusa- ?tr lem." "What, Nehemiah. have you J? any money?" "No." "Have you any tnf kingly authority?" "No." "Have you any F0' eloquence?" "No." Yet that midnight, , moonlight ride of Nehemiah resulted in the lm glorious rebuilding of the city of Jerusalem. m.n The people knew not how the thing was to (y *- - * ?jiu clf U? UOHUt uut Willi' cmuusittom iucy , cried out, "Let us rise up now and build the 13 city." Some people laughed and said it a r could not be done. Some people were in- on furiate and offered physical violence, saying the thing should not be done. But the work- Da' men went right on, standing on the wall, trowel in one band, sword in the other, un- ? . til the work was gloriously completed. A _ that very time in Greece, Xenophon was sa] writing a history, and Plato was making " philosophy, and Demosthenes was rattling ^el nis rhetorical thunder. But all of them together did not do so much for the world I*? as this midnight, moonlight ride of prayinc. courageous, homesick, close mouthed rel Nehemiah. ^ My subject first impresses me with the idea what an intense thing is church affection. Seize the bridle of that horse and stop, a"' Nehemiah. Why are you risking your life here in the night? Your horso will stumble J16 over these ruins and fall on you. Stop this ral useless exposure of your life. No; Nehemiah an will not stop. He at last tells us the whole .mc story. He lets us know he was an exile in a m far distant land, and newas a servant, a cup- U91 bearer in the palace of Artaxerxes Lonigma- P" nus, and one day, while he was handing the cup of wino to the king, the king said to him: "What is the matter with you? You *rc are not sick. I know you must have some 10 great trouble. What is the matter with you?" Then he told the king how that beloved an< Jerusalem was broken down, how that his ?nl father's tomb had been desecrated, how tnatthe temple had been dishonored and defaced, how that the walls wore scattered and broken. "Well," says King Artaxerxes, "what do you want?" *er "Well," said the cupbearer, Nohemiah, [Wl "I want to go home. I want to fix up the *B. grave of my father. I want to restore the *rJ beauty of the temple. I want to rebuild the aai masonry of the city wall. Besides, I want J!?1 passports so that I shall not be hindered in my journey, and besidos that," as you will nna in tne context, want au oraer on mo rraan who keeps your forest for just so much ?e' timber as I may need for the rebuilding of ~? the city." "How long shall you ba gone?" eaid the king. The time of absence is ar- * ranged. In hot haste this seaming adven- wh turer comes to Jerusalem, and in my text we UPfind him on horseback, in the midnight, rid ing around the ruins. It is through the spectacles of this scene that we discover the ardent attachment of Nehomiah for sacred . 1 Jerusalem, which in all ages has been the 1Dfi type of the church of God, our Jerusalem, which we love just as much as Nehomiah loved his Jerusalem. The fact is that you jj?! lovo the church of God bo much that there is t1?1 no spot on earth so sacred unless it be your , J1?5 own Preside, The church has been tD you so J0*1 much comfort and illumination that there is *)ei . . . ? ... i do nothing that miiKes you so naie ;is 10 miva ? it talked against. P"1 If ther- have been times when you have "? been carried Into captivity by sickness, you J?' longed for the church, our holy Jerusalem, just as much as Nehemiah longed for his 1101 Jerusalem, and the first day you came out K"1 you came to the house of the Lord. When 0l? thetemple was in ruins, like Nehemiah, you walked around and looked at it, and in the Jjj moonlight you stood listening if you could not bear the voice of the dead organ, the 'j* psa'.m of the expired Sabbaths. What Jeru- ?| ealem was to Nehemiah the church of God is Ple to you. Skepiicsand inlldels may scoff at the church as an obsolete affair, as a relic of Jvl1 the dark ages, ns a convention of goody [or goody people, but al! the impression they t?r havH ever made on your mind against the r\f flrwl ia nhar?lnr/>lr nnthiriL'. Ynn would make more sacrifices for it to-day than jjlf any other institution, and if it were needral j1'1 j'ou would die in its-defense. You can take . the words of the kingly poet as he said, "If S" I forget tt.ee, 0 Jerusalem, let iny right . hand forget her cunning." You understand s!n in your own experience the pathos, the home- s'n sickness, the courage, the holy enthusiasm ? of Nehemiah in his midnight ride around ^ the ruins of his beloved Jerusalem. J"" Again, my text impresses me with the fact rul (hat, before reconstruction, there must be an C exploration of ruins. Why was not Nehe- I minh asleep under the covers? Why was not I his horse stabled in the midnight? Let the I police of the citv arrest this midnight rider, I out on some mischief. No. Nehemiah is S goincto rebuild the city, and he is making 1 the preliminary exploration. In this gate. ! out that trate, east, west, north, south. All I through the ruins. The ruins must be <-x- Go nlored before the work of reconstruction can sin begin. sai The reason that so many people in this day cas apparently do not stay converted is because is they did not first explore tho rnins of their hoi own heart. The reason that there are so sin muny professed Christians who in this day ani lie and forge and steal and commit abomina- | exi tions and go to the penitentiary is because po< they first do not learn tho ruin of their own hoi heart. They have not found out that "the mil heart is deceitful above all things and des- in perately wicked." Thev had an id-a that 01 thev were almost right, and they built reli- tin gion ns a sort of extension, as an ornamental po< cupola. There was a superstructure of reli- M k'ion built on a substratum of unrepented thr sins. The trouble with a good deal of mod- shi ern theology is that instead of building on kir tho right foundation it buiids on tho debris see of an unregenerated nature. They nttempt hul to rebuild Jerusalem before, in the midnight of i of conviction, they have seen the ghastiiness of the ruin. They have such a poor founda- sin tion for their religion that the first northeast' W storm of temptation blows thorn down. I ote have no faith in a man's conversion if he is ire not converted in the old fashioned way? John Bunyan's way, John Wesley's way, John Calvin's way, Paul's way, Christ's way, I God's way. mil A man comes to me to talk about religion. Tin Tho first question I ask hiin is, "Do you ! tur feel yourself to be n sinner?" If he says, ( I "Well, I?yes," the hesitancy makes me feel C that tho man wants a ride on Nehemiah's j ish Tse by midnight through the ruins?la by e gate of hia affections, out by the gate of 3 will?and before he has got through with at midnight ride he will drop the reins on y e horse's neck and will take his right hand <i smite on his heart an1 say, "God, be ( jroiful to me. a sinner," and before he - ? %- - Ml Ul- f/VAi <& sraoiea nis norso dp w..ii uilu mo idui it of the stirrups, and he will slide down i the ground, and he will kneel crying: lave mercy on me, 0 God. according to iy lovinff kindne33, according unto the altitude of Thy 'ender mercies! Blot out Y transgressions, for I acknowledge my insgressions, ar.d my sins are ever before loe." A.gain, my subject gives me a specimen of sy and triumphant sadness. If there was y man In the world who had a right to spe and give up everything a3 lost, it was shemlah. You say, "He was a cupbearer the palace of Shushan, and It was a grand ice." So it was. The hall of that palace is 200 feet square, and the roof hovered er thirty-six marble pillars, each pillar k111 a r\f f vl CX 1 T H,Y iOOL UiKU, nuu iud iuicucv w*w?v/ v? 4 y and the deep green of the forest foliage, d the white of the driven snow, all hung , srabiing in the upholstery. But, my ? ends, you know very well that flne arcbi- i Jtur? will not put down homesickness. J t Nehemiah did not give up. Then, len you saw him going among sse desolated streets and by these 8 smantlea towers and by the torn 8 grave of his father, you would suppose a it he would have been disheartened and rt he would have dismounted from his rse and gone to his room and said: "Woe me! My father's grave is torn up. The t nple is dishonored. The walls are broken . wn. I have no money with which to re- * ild. I wishl had never bean born. I wish ? were dead." Not so says Nehemiah. c though he had a grief so intense that it cited the commentary or his king, yet that fl nniless, expatriated Nehemiah rouses himf up to rebuild the city. He gets his per- 8 ssion of absence. He gets his passports, a > Vinafana arxrav tn .Torilonlfim- Bv niffht ? horseback he rides through the ruins. ) overcomes the most ferocious opposition. ) arouse the piety and patriotism of the 3 ople, and in less than two months? j mely, fifty-two days?Jerusalem was re- y. lit. That's what I call busy and triumph* , I sadness. * ,VIy friends, the ;vhole temptation Is with u when you have trouble to do just the t posite to the behavior of Nehemiab, ani at is to give up. You say, "i have lost my ild and can never smile again." You say, c have lost my property, and I never can s pair my fortune." You say, "Ihave falleD :o sin, and I never can Btart again for n , w life." If Satan can make you form that c solution and make you keep it, he has c ined you. Trouble Is not sent to crush li u, but to arouse you, to animate you, to spel you. The blacksmith does not thrust 3 iron into the forge and then blow away ^ th the bellows and then bring the t iron out on the anvil and beat with oke after stroke to ruin the iron, but prepare it for a better use. Ob. it the Lord God of Nehemiah would 3 ise up all broken hearted people to re- ( ild! Whipped, betrayed, shipwrecked, -i TTTQnf + nn ThA Tfnlfon pilSUUCU, X UUI VI WJUW *?w irtyr Algerius sits in his dungeon writing c etter, and he dat<53 it, "From the delecta- e > orchard of the Leonine prison." That ? what I call triumphant sadness. I knew * nother who burled her be.be on Friday and Sabbath appeared In tie house of God C d said: "Give me a class; give me a Sabth-scnool class. I have no ohild now left ? >, and I would like to have a class of little , Ildren. Give me real poor children. * ve me a class off the baok street." That I r Ms beautiful. That is triumphant sadness, t Lt 8 o'clook every Sabbath afternoon, for ? irs. In a beautiful parlor In Philadelphia? )arlor pictured and statuettes!?there were m ten to twenty destitute ohildren of the t eet. Those destitute children received ? igious instruction, concluding with cakes ( d saudwiches. How do I know that that v s going on for sixteen years? ) know it a this way: That was the first home In Phil- C elphia \rhere I was called to comfort a fl jat sorrow. They had a splendid boy, and , had been drowned nt Long Branch. The 01 her and mother almost idolized the boy, d the sob and shriek of that father ana p ?ther as they hung over the coffin resound my ears to-day. There seemed to be no s of praying, for when I knelt down to ly the outcry in the room drowned out al) ]V ? prayer. But the Lord comforted it sorrow. They did not forget their iub!e. If you should go any afternoon inLaurel Hill, you would find a monument p th the word "Walter" inscribed upon it t< i a wreath of fresh flowers around the me. I think there was not an hour in enty years, winter or summer, when there s not a wreath of fresh flowers around titer's name. But the Christian mother o sent those flowers there, having no child t, Sabbath afternoons mothered ten or ti Bnty of the lost ones of the street. That ft beautiful. That is what I call busy and _i umphant Badness. Here is a man who j* ? lost his property. He does not go to d rd drinking. He does not destroy his own b< >. He comes and says: "Harness me for 01 ristian work. My money's gone. I haye treasures on earth. I want treasures in c< iven. I have a voice and a heart to serve ri d." You say that that man has failed, e1 has not failed?he lias triumphed! ifl )h, I wish I cculd persuade all the people 0 bave any kind of trouble never to give , I wish they would look at the midnight or of the text and that the four hoofs of it beast on wtoich Nehemiah rode might : to pieces all their discouragements and A rdships and trials. Give up! Who is go; to give up when on the bosom of God he 1 have all his troubles hushed? Give up! ver think of giving up. Are you borne tvn with poverty? A little child was found Iding her dead mother's hand in the darkss of a tenement house, and some one com: in the little girl looked up while holding : dead mother's hand** aucl said, "Oh, I Ul wish that God had made more light for Je ir folks." My dear. God will be your Jr ht, God will bo your shelter, God will be ar home. Are you borne down with ) bereavements of life? Is the use lonely now that the child is v( ne? Do not give up. Think of what the ^ 1 sexton said when the ministerasked him y ho put so much care on the little graves the cemetery?so much more care than on ) larger graves?and the old soxton said, ,n ir, you know that 'of such is the kingdom . heaven,' and I think the Saviour is ' nsed when he sees so much white clover nvlng around theso little graves." But ia en the minister pressed the old sexton a more satisfactory answer the old sexi said, "Sir, about these lareer graves. I " a't know who are the Lord's saints and >11 o are not. but you know, sir. it i? clean !U Fh>rfint with the bairns." Oh. if vou have J that keen, tender, indescribable sorrow "c it comes from the loss of a'child, do not )U re up. The old sexton was right. It is well with the bairus. Or, if you have ,"j nod, if you have sinned grievously? ,al ned until you have been cast out by the ,n arch, sinned until you havo been cast out *. society?do not give up. Perhaps there y be in this house one that could truth- ;.s ly utter the lamentation of another: :11 )nce I was pure as the snow, but 1 fell? DJ i'ell like a snowflake, from heavontohell? KI fall to be trampled as filth in the street? >H ?*oil to be scoffed at, spit on aud beat, f0 'raying, cursing. wishing to die, Selling my soul to whoever would buy. )ealing in shame for a morsel of bread, J lating the living and fearing the dead. cj )o not give up! One like unto the 8on o! to J comes to you to-day, saying. "Go and no more," while he cries oat to your as- l lauts, "Let him that is without sin >t the ilrst stone at her." Oh, there r(! no reason why any one in ihi<i ^ use by reason of any trouble or gi: should give up. Are you a foreigner w i in a strange land? Nohemiah was an ,u le. Are you penniless? Nehemiah whs f,. jr. Are you homesick? Nehemiah was mesick. Are you broken hearted? Neheih was broken hearted. But just see him the text, riding along the sacrileged grave jj( his father, aud by the dragon well, and |j, ough th flsh gnte, and by the king's 8j ?l, in and out, in and out. the moonlight (]| ling on the broken masonry, which {? ows a lor.g shadow, at which the hoise es, and at the same time that moonlight idling up the features of this man till you not only the mark of sad reminiscence, t the courage and hope, the enthusiasm a man who knows that Jerusalen will be milded. I pick you up to-day out of you i y< s aud out of your sorrow, aud I put you tt linst the warm ha.irt of Christ. "The rnal Goi is thy refuire, and underneath ' the everlasting arms." A Lusty Young Town. ]0 iand has been secured for a new cotton y, 1 with $500,000 capital at Depew, N. Y. , e town ingrowing rapidly as a manufac- 8t ing and railroad centre. Jovernor Adams lias signed tho bill abol- tL ing capital punishment in Colorado.. J pj / Dn/?<ltn.:iSnn V..I. O ? I ? A^vuiiaittius ui mjulij nuiuiBt Henry I. was called "Beauclerlr," Decauee he was one of the few Kings 0J )f his time who could read and write, g Shah Sophi, of Persia had one black u sye and the other blue, this difference ia jeing natnral, and not the result of jn iccident or design. li, Qneen Anne was so redfaced from ler love of brandy that her not too PDT^Orffnl cnVvifl/ifa AHIIA/^ Un? ou?j wv?iou u? "" ""j it San." 5ll Alexander the Great had a large sole on the right side of hiB neck. It vas regarded by his contemporaries as jc i sisyn of good luck. "? Eichard III; was commonly supposed "I ;o have been a hunchback, but accord- in ng to some authorities was a well & nade, handsome man. 3] Anastaeina rarely spoke. It is be- ~~ ieved thai he had some defect of the rocal organs. He communicated with lie attendants by writing. .Louis XIII. conld not grow a beard, ind in compliment to the King's imooth face the courtiers All shaved, ma beardless faces were the fashion , luring hiB reign. Caligula was a maniac. For nights ogether he would walk the balls of his 1 )alace unable to sleep, alternately inrsing the night and praying for the lay. The first fourteen Roman Emperors ill shaved their faces clean. There is i portrait bust representing Nero with k beard, but it is not believed to be mthentic. Jaropolk, one of the early Kings of iussia, had only about half a lower aw, the remainder having been cut off >y a sabre stroke during a fight with he Turks. g Attila, the Hun, had a nose so short e hat from the front it presented the t! .ppes.rance of two holes in the middle j ?f his countenance, surmounted bv a p mall wart. f( Charles Le Chauve was completely 0 aid. It is said he had not a single hair f ?n h:is head or face. Eyebrows and ashes were both completely lacking. Vliy the Cleveland Children Went to s Princeton. * Little Gladys Vanderbilt, the ten- c rear-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Dornelins Vanderbilt, and her cousins, \ Virginia and Gladys Smith, daughters ^ if the Rev. Dr. Mackay-Smith, are iditing a paper in Washington called Spring Blossoms. With the proceeds hey intended to add to the Easter J ! OA T 1 l_ n a 1 1 mer.mgs 01 of. oonn a ounaay-Bcnooi. In the first r.amber Gladys wrote: 'I like Washington better than I do few York. 1 can ride my pony and ay wheel in the streets of Washingon, because they are so smooth. In few York I cannot ride them." Virginia Smith tells story about he Cleveland children in this way: 'When the daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Cleveland had their bonnets on to go way from the White Honse Mr. Cleveland, who was then President, aked: 'Where are you going, chil- _ Iren?' . ' " 'We are going to Princeton" they eplied. " 'Why are you going to Princeon?' Mr. Cleveland asked, and little larion spoke up and said: 'McTinay's tomin; McTinley's comin.'" The youthful writer adds: "I supose this story will go down to possrity."?Baltimore Sun. Peddling Electricity. * In disposing of the immense quanti- H ies of electrical energy yielded by 1 fiagara Falls it haB been found profit- I ble to organize a local company to ^ uy the electricity at wholesale and J ill it at retail. The profit of peddling ^ lectricity at retail prices is said to be ] Asiderable. The idea may be elabo- i ited and developed indefinitely where- J ?er electricitv is supplied in very irgo bulk.?New York World. ? c UNHAPPY ADOLESCENCE. fter Suffer! nc for More Than a Year, Mini Davies Determines to Give Fink Fills a Trial, and Is Elated at the Result. Head What She SAys About Tliein. From the Press, Utica, N. Y. No stronger words of commendation for r. Vniliams' Pink Pills for Pale People,have J-4 en heard In this violuity than those ex- ! 11 essed to a Press reporter by Miss Alma M. 11 ivios, of 44 Spring 8treet, Utica, N. Y., a 11 w days ago. Miss Davies is a very young 11 nnan. but she has suffered the ravages of ,, sease to an extent experienced but by few ' d people. ,, Pour ye;irs ago tnis summer she was just 11 taring the period of womanhooi Her ,, | ysical condition at-that time may best be 11 pressed by her own words: "I was contin- 11 i ,lly tired." she said, "always felt the need "I rest, never eared to go out, and shunned 1, e society of other people. I had little am- "( :lon, and was indifferent as to what oc- ,, \ rred about ine. I consulted several phy- T :luns anil they told me that iny blood wns I ,t of order; it was as thin as water they 11 id. ThH.r prescriptions did no: appear to H 1 me, h >wever, and I did not have much ? [th then in patent medicines. I continued this way for nearly a year, growing more I 3courayed and disheartened all the time. la nally, having seen Dr. Williams' Pink Pills I a te^sively advertised, and read the tes- j nony of so many that they bad benefited fa ' their use, I resolved to test them. * "Whether I imagined it or not, I don't Ig low, but I certainly felt better after having ' 0 ken the first box. I persevered in my efrta to yet well, taking the pills at frequent Lj tervals. At the end of about a year, when ? bad consumed a dozen boxes, I felt like a A sw woman. My blood wns healthy, my leeks, which had been formerly very pale. ok on some color, and my eyes, which bad own very dull,became bright. Iq every way M noticed an improvement in myself. Ha "Since then 1 have had some occasion to fas inew the uoses, especially during hot ertthur, when I have severe headaches. At ich times I take the pills for the space of a eekorso. and my complaint disappears. I * nuotabieto expre-s the gratitude that I ^ el for tbe relief from intense suffering that |js medicine bus given me." Pink Pills are sold in boxes (never in loose _ irm by the dozen or hundred, and the pub- A 3 are cautioned against numerous imitaons sold in this shape) at 50 cents a box or x boxes for $2.50,"and may be had of nil ugirists, or direct by mail from Dr. Will- j f ins' Medicine Company. I The Origin of a Hymn. I Few modern hymns are perhaps bet- || ir known than ''Shall We Meet Be- q and the River?" yet the majority of tr iose who have sung it are probably ar at aware that the author is H. L. i astings, the anti-infidel editor of mi oston. The hytnu was originally a J uu tter from Mr. Hastings to an only | rother, nod was given to the public ; ig jout 18(50. I in, | tir Silence is the soltest response for all pr ie contradictions that arise from im- j ?*i jrtinence, vulgarity and envy. 1 ;| ? ::?? The Doll Industry. State or Ohio, Crrr or Toledo,!^ Until withi- ihe last fifty years all FBAwgffiChewet makes oath that he Uthf ills, except homemade ones, were senior partner of the firm of F. J. CamrA , . r . Co.,dolngbusinesamtheCityofToledo,County 'ought over to this country from the and State aforesaid, and that said firm will pay ermain mountain districts, the Tyrol the 8um hundred dollars for eaon j r> . ? and every case of catarrh that cannot b? id owitzsrland. .But dolls are now cured by the use Hall's Catarrh Cure. rgely manufactured in America, the ? A . FrankJ. Chenet. i ? , , . Sworn to before me and subscribed in my dastry having been long ago estab- presence, this 6th day of December, shed on a permanent and lucrative } seal ? a. D. 1888. A. W. Qleasoi^^ isis. China dolls are moulded in most the same way that plates are, acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces v 3 _-,a? ii i-* '( of the system. Send for testimonials, frte. id are made from the same (juslity of j# chenbt & Co., Toledo, Ol ay. Sola by Druggists, 76c. Hall's Family Pills are the best "The insurgents," reported the cascahets stimulate liver, kidneys and out, "have a dynamite gun." bowels. Never sicken, weaken or gripe; 10c. Strange! mused General Weyler. FITSstoppedfreeandpermanentlycured. No 3tran?e that I never thought of tak- its after nrst day's use of Dr. Klihb's Griai ? ? tt. , NerveRestorer. Free$2trialbottleandtreatg that gun. Me immediately wrote jBe. send to Dr. Kline. 931 Arch St. Phila.,Pa dispatch m which he captured the T . ?~?T 77, T~ p_.i, Just try a 10c. box of Cascarets, the finest pnamite gun. rUCK. liver and bowel regulator ever made. ^ THREE HAPPY WOMET^ | Each Relieved of Periodic Pain and Back* ac^e? A Trio of Fervent Letters. Before using Lydia E. Pinkham's. Vegetable Compound, my health was gradually being onder* r mined. I suffered untold agony from painful rCrSiv v( menstruation, backache, pain on top of my vili&BfciS'rSk iW I head and ovarian trouble. I concluded to i1ib9B9 / (* try -^rs* Pinkham's Compound, and found jt&SKmk*!! ** was any """Oman needs who suffer* }WSmC with painful monthly periods. It entirely VwBh '^rW/ Arured me. Mrs. Georgie Wass, 923 Bank St., Cincinnati, O, For years I had suffered with painful men* /7festruation every month. At the beginning of /b menstruation it was impossible for me to tand up L for more than five minutes, I felt so misrable. One sj. day a little book of Mrs. Pinkham's waa hrown into my . \ y ^SL? house, and I sat right down and read it. then got some ,w]P' of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com* ound and Liver Pills. I can heartily say that to-day I eel like a newvjM?^^?' woman; my monthly suffering is a thing f the past. I f shall always praise the Vegetable Compound or what it has / ' done for me. ATws ATatfftibft AvTwnsnv -tf.3 TnoVH-m St. . Trfmi Ka Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound has cured me of painful mentruation and backache. The pain in my back was dreadful, and the agony suffered during menstruation nearly drove me wild. Now this is all over*thanks to Mrs. Pinkham's medicine and advice.? arrie V_ Wh.lia.ms, South Mills, N. C. v ^$1 The great volume of testimony proves conclusively that Lydia E. Pinkham'i regetable Compound is a safe, sure and almost infallible remedy in coses of ~ rregularity, suppressed, excessive or painful monthly period^. /SHANDY CATHARTIC viAbco/vetoy i cure consripatiorr^ 1 I 2S* SO I DRUGGISTS ! HRQATTTTPT V JlTTlBIWTPPn to cure anTcaseofeoMtlpatloB. Caiearets are the Ideal Laxat, laDuULUiijLI uUAMTIIdCjU tire.nerer *rip or jrripe.bnt cante ea?ynaturalresalti, gaai i J pie yd booklet fry. Ad. STEBLPffl BE3TKDY CO.,JCfrlcago. Montry^ Cany or Wew lortc^ ^ illi ^ hfw^N^ ^Joir^ ^'1 ,ij i fflrr 'v? Wall Paper Is Unsanitary. 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